Forkball pitchers are a rare breed, perhaps even rarer than the elusive knuckleballer. The forkball is a pitch that isn’t used much anymore in the major leagues, though its cousin, the split-finger ...

Professional baseball player Son Dong-hyun (24) of KT Wiz is taking down batters like falling leaves with his new pitch. Son Dong-hyun, who joined KT via the 2019 rookie draft, round 2, pick 21, is a ...

You've read this before. It wasn't even that long ago. Three weeks ago, BP's own Dan Rozenson wrote about Tyler Clippard and his "split-finger fastball." The quotation marks are because you could ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Mets stars Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil were summoned to face new Mets sensation Kodai Senga for a stadium pitching display Sunday, and club bigwigs, including owner ...

There was a ghost sighting at spring training in Florida on Sunday. Or rather, there were two ghost sightings to be precise. That's the number of times New York Mets rookie pitcher Kodai Senga hurled ...

Being a major league pitcher isn't the sweet gig that it used to be. You can't use sticky stuff. You can't take your time. Heck, you can't even rely on over-shifted defenders and small bases to save ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — It is arguably the most mystifying pitch heading into the 2023 Major League Baseball season, and it comes with a mysterious name. The ghost forkball. Kodai Senga's signature ...

Kodai Senga ain’t afraid of no ghost. The right-hander was sensational in his MLB debut on Sunday in Miami after shaking out some of the nerves in the first inning. All eight of his strikeouts in the ...

BOWIE — He is the only member of the Bowie Baysox’s 1994 “Fab Five” starting staff who is not playing as high as the Triple-A level. But Rick Forney is not whining about it. While Vaughn Eshelman has ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Orioles right-handed reliever Mike Fetters has been getting some strange looks lately. A pitch leaves his hand, hits the catcher’s mitt and defies logic. Typecast as a ...